You'd think that the people who'd be strongest about hammering dishonest and unethical business practices would be principled "conservatives" to whom such things must surely seem like treachery. But then, in the US, people you'd think wopuld fall into that category go condoning George Bush's record, for example, as a matter of minor misunderstandings and trivial misdemeanours; and the same kind of thing was true when the conservatives in the UK were still within sniffing reach of being in office.

And of course the same applies the other way - the people who should be most unforgiving of bent union bosses should be union activists. But then, in my experience, that actually tends to be the case.